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Saint Joseph's Presentation Convent — College Road

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Saint Joseph's Presentation Convent — College Road
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Attached gable-fronted single-cell former convent chapel, built c. 1840, with three or four-bay nave elevations and having octagonal-plan tower to north-east corner. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with dressed limestone copings to gables having carved limestone cross finials. Spired slate roof to tower having cast-iron cross finial and carved limestone bracketed eaves course. Rendered walls, roughcast to upper section of gable-front, with render quoins. Snecked cut sandstone walls to tower with dressed limestone quoins. Round-headed window opening to gable-front with carved chamfered limestone sill, carved limestone surround and tracery. Round-headed openings to west elevation with render surrounds and timber tracery to windows. Square-headed opening to lower level of gable-front with replacement door. Attached to former convent by linking block and attached to boundary wall by single-bay single-storey linking bay to west with pitched roof. Segmental-headed opening to west linking bay with timber battened door and overlight. Grotto to south-west with decorative cast-iron surround.

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